Come October 13, self-taught chef Justin Warner will have released his first cookbook, The Laws of Cooking: And How To Break Them, an achievement coming after Warner rose to fame by winning on the TV show Food Network Star in 2012. But what most...

“Until I met with the publishers, I didn’t really know how to fit all of the “crazy” in to a book with a theme. If you look at any other facet of my life, it’s pretty disorganized and fire-from-the-hip. We figured out that my book should simply answer the question that people ask most, which is how do I come up with these flavor combinations.”